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Aaron Betsky Lecture + Interview

Object Oriented Approach and fsdts city

Global Summer School Conversation Luis Fraguada

Aaron Betsky is a critic, curator, educator, lecturer and writer on architecture and design, who, from August 2006 to January 2014, was the director of the Cincinnaty Art Museum.

Peter Trummer is Professor for Urban Design and Head of the Institute for Urban Design and Spatial Planning at the University of Innsbruck.

Luis Fraguada is director of BAD, an architectural practice situated in Beirut, Barcelona and Chengdu. He is also professor in IaaC.

Interactive and Responsive Façade Systems

Emancipatory technologies in computation and architecture

IaaC Lectrue Series: Eliminating poverty in 10 years

IaaC is an international centre for Education, Fabrication and Research dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in constructing 21st century habitability.

José Pérez de Lama is architect, director of the FabLab Sevilla, “Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Sevilla”.

Nicolas Negroponte is an architect, founder and Chairman Emeritus of MIT Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC).

App-City Pablo Ros

Smart Planning for Intelligent Cities

Futurecraft

Pablo Ros is professor in IaaC and AA. He holds a MSAAD at Columbia University and currently he is pursuing a PhD focused on NeuroArchitecture.

Maurizio Carta is an Italian urban planner and architect. He is full professor of urban and regional planning at the Department of Architecture at the University of Palermo.

Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect, engineer, inventor, educator and activist who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab.

The networked city and Peer to Peer Urbanism

Will the ones from developing countries be the first to

Itineraries of the Construction

Nikos Salingaros is a mathematician and polymath known for his work on urban theory, architectural theory, complexity theory, and design phylosophy.

Fabriela Gonzales is founder of Pseudorama, architect from the “Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra” and IaaC Alumni.

Ruben Tortosa is PHD in Arts and profesor from the Design Department of the “Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya”.

3.0 Deployments

In the last edition IAAC-BITS 2 (impurities) we insisted in the irregular capacity of the mixture, the combination and the contamination as a condition that is susceptible to encourage a complex, rich and heterogeneous (inter)action. It evokes a transversal vocation, and therefore transdisciplinar, fundamental in the contemporaneous epistemological model. However, this third edition IAAC-BITS3 focus on the main mechanism through which this “informationally impure” condition–dynamic and combinatory- would be propagated: the deployment. Indeed, this new “society of the information” does no longer develop and widen its material and intellectual production through precise, lineal and rigid traces. This was the case of the traditional logics through privileged –and often unidirectional- mono-hierarchical channels of production. On the contrary, this processes are now being distributed through open and variable processes of co-production and informational deployments. Mechanisms that would remit to a more elastic and irregular essence of the formulation idea, spatial and conceptual, far away from the concepts of “prolongation”, “continuation” or “composition” and closer to ideas as “distribution”, “propagation” and “organization”. Formulations (undisciplined) that would be propagated through complex patterns of crossed information and overlapped interactions, generated among local events of particular definition, and global patterns of multi-scalar evolution. Formulations that because of its own complex (interactive) nature would avoid any definitely pure, prefixed and/or predetermined order in order to develop in a continuous procesal becoming of moments and movements. Autonomous combinations in its own generative dynamics (valid by itself) but associated, or better, interconnected to a wide network of modifications, deformations, mutations and alterations, as instant manifestation of an infinite virtual mesh of holistic agencies among evolutive groups and subgroups. This edition could be understood, therefore, as a possible combination among other possible coral “trajectories” (or manifestacions): one among

multiple frames of an open, heteroclite and incessant process, refered to the advanced knowledge and its dynamic evolution. In the texts and authors here gathered we can find materialized frames of this continuous movement that would share the interest to explore that evolutive capacity of propagation. These operations are generated through information deployments (precisely because of its own “procesal” and “occupational” nature) that are called to negotiate and interact in between them –relating or infiltrating- with the bodies (even those more solids and opaques) of the reality and the knowledge. There would be, without any doubt, a strong connection among the irregular vocation (impure an not homologated) of the produced action and the method of “deployment” used in its own propagation, because the deformable, alterable or contaminable condition of the second one would enable the emergence of the first. A phenomena that wouldn’t base it inherent complexity in the “deployment” rules applied, (its evolutionative, mixturative and propagative protocols), but rather in a series of systematic (elemental) decision logics. This consecutive actions, lateralizations and simultaneous perturbations, would end up creating “processed” structures, more complex because of being “elaborated”, more diverse and heterogeneous because of more combinatory, because of, precisely, more “coparticipatives”. In the following 12 articles are presented documents that are not only shown as associated results to the contemporaneous deployment itself (dynamic and open), but that in its condition of individual subgroups (that is to say, belonging to a “whole” but at the same time identifiable as possible “units”) would actuate in constant co-participative interchange among them. As a consequence, it is possible –through an attentive lecture of all of them- to detect the underlying identity of each one, and simultaneously, to deduct a series of variable positions and positionings (dispositions) , that in its deployments would constantly refer to a wide range of movements and implicit combinations in the contemporaneous paradigm change.

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IAAC SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Manuel Gausa, IaaC Dean

EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Jordi Vivaldi, IaaC bits Editorial Coordinator

EDITORIAL TEAM Manuel Gausa, IaaC Dean Mathilde Marengo, Communication & Publication Jordi Vivaldi, IaaC bits Editorial Coordinator

ADVISORY BOARD: Areti Markopoulou, IaaC Academic Director Tomas Diez, Fab Lab Bcn Director Silvia Brandi, Academic Coordinator Ricardo Devesa, Advanced Theory Concepts Maite Bravo, Advanced Theory Concepts

DESIGN: Ramon Prat, ACTAR Editions

IAAC BIT FIELDS: 1. Theory for Advanced Knowledge 2. Advanced Cities and Territories 3. Advanced Architecture 4. Digital Design and Fabrication 5. Interactive Societies and Technologies 6. Self-Sufficient Lands

Nader Tehrani, Architect, Director MIT School Architecture, Boston Juan Herreros, Architect, Professor ETSAM, Madrid Neil Gershenfeld, Physic, Director CBA MIT, Boston Hanif Kara, Engineer, Director AKT, London Vicente Guallart, Architect, Chief City Arquitect of Barcelona Willy Muller, Director of Barcelona Regional Aaron Betsky, Architect & Art Critic, Director Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Hugh Whitehead, Engineer, Director Foster+ Partners technology, London Nikos A. Salingaros, Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio Salvador Rueda, Ecologist, Director Agencia Ecologia Urbana, Barcelona Artur Serra, Anthropologist, Director I2CAT, Barcelona

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